Gov. Employees are tested before being hired. They are also tested when there is suspicion of usage (including booze). This will cost the taxpayers $$$ for no good reason except for pandering to the fringe of the GOP. Do some math people....how many state employees are there? How much are the tests? Let's say they are tested 4 times a year? Come on, I know alot of people are tested for their jobs and I see the ethical point of testing Gov. Employees but is it cost effective? Also, Are legislators going to be tested? How about all the contracted agencies that receive TAXPAYER MONEY? People, use your brains. He knows this will be tied up in the courts and possible shot down, just like the 3% pay cut to state employees (which the TAXPAYER is paying for the attorney fees). Although he panders to dummies, Scott is not dumb.He is dividing, and it seems conquering, the middle class.

Everyone that is hired on for a real job is required to pass a drug test, why does the ACLU for one minute believe that just because the person to be tested is a state work that they should be exempt. The goal of drug testing is to discourage drug use and if the use of drug test discourages the use then it's a good then, and if someone loses their job for drug use, I'm sure that there is some good person that does not use drugs willing to do the job and be an good citizen and example. Now does anyone thing that someone that gets paid with tax payer dollars should not be drug tested? I like to see my tax dollars being put to good use and not wasted on drug users.